Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rejoice that "Operation Bootstrap" has been so successful, but let us not deny that Puerto Rico is a poor boy hitching a free ride in Uncle Sam's limousine. Some rich boys are also riding free-namely the U.S. corporations there. If freedom from income tax is so beneficial to Puerto Rico, by all means let us all enjoy it and extend it to our other possessions...
...Blamed "politics" for his troubles with committee, public and press. "Frankly. I like to meet important people. Is that so bad? In the country where I was born, it took two or three generations for a 'poor man' to get to know important people . . . Nor did I ever realize that it was evil to be generous. Perhaps I do give gifts to too many people, but if I do, it is only an expression of my nature." Another expression of Goldfine's nature came later when he tried to beat the House subcommittee to the punch...
...East Pakistan has more people (46 million to 38 million), West Pakistan has the capital and the lion's share of government jobs. Many of the programs in the East are run by bureaucrats shipped in from the West. East Pakistan, say its politicians, is treated as a "poor relation." The East produces about two-thirds of the nation's foreign exchange (exports of jute, tea and goatskins), yet gets fewer development loans than West Pakistan...
...modern America's 'money world' Mr. Parson clings to the lower rungs of the economic ladder. He is often dependent on gratuities and tips to make ends meet. Either through necessity or through too casual adoption of alien moral norms, he has become a poor credit risk; the family is deeply in debt. Mrs. Parson? She's on the nine-to-five shift, earning money to keep the children in nursery school so she can earn more to salt away for their college education-or their clothes...
...confined by his own choosing in a world where all taste was poor taste, Vag naturally felt sullen. To belong in such an environment would require too much of a sacrifice. The inhibited perspective cultivated since school days was too ingrained to be surmounted. And the healthy pre-occupations which he too often witnessed down by the Charles violated the precious ethic of this well-mannered...